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You can download the driver (and the firmware) from http://ipw2200.sf.net, although you will also need to build the ieee80211 support modules which are currently outside of the kernel tree (I think there is a version of them in linux-2.6.13-rc1, so it might be a part of future releases).
Ubuntu Linux (5.04) already comes with support for this wireless card out of the box, so you should be all ready to go.
+
!!Graphics
-The graphics controller uses an Intel 915GM chipset, which is supported by Xorg's i810 driver. Unfortunately
, the default xorg.conf that Ubuntu calculates for this laptop results
in a blank screen when X starts - examining
the /var/log/Xorg
..log file shows that all modes except "640x480" are not supported
(!!):
-<verbatim>
-(II) I810()
: Generic Monitor: Using default hsync value of 48
.36 kHz
-(II) I810(): Generic Monitor: Using vrefresh range of 50
.00
-74
.00 Hz
-(II) I810(): Not using mode "1024x768" (no mode
of this name)
-(II) I810(): Not using mode
"800x600
" (no mode of this name)
-(II) I810(): Increasing the scanline pitch to allow tiling mode (640 -> 1024)
.
-(--) I810(): Virtual size
is 640x480 (pitch 1024)
-(**) I810()
: Built
-in mode "640x480"
-<
/verbatim>
+The graphics controller uses an Intel 915GM chipset, which is supposedly
supported by Xorg's i810 driver. However
, it doesn't seem to be properly supported by
the version of Xorg
in Hoary, and graphics didn't work out of
the box
. (!!)
+
+http
://lists
.freedesktop
.org/pipermail/xorg/2005
-June/008272
.html suggests it all works with newer versions
of various packages, so hopefully it will just work in the next release of Ubuntu.
+
+For now, use the
"vesa
" graphics driver
.
+
+(The difficulty in supporting this chip
is described in an [xorg thread|http
://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005
-March
/007151.html].)
-The solution is the same as found
-at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=11221 (for a different type of laptop) - add
-<verbatim>
-HorizSync 56-85
-VertRefresh 30-81
-</verbatim>
-to the "Monitor" section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get other modes for higher resolutions.
!! BlueTooth
The laptop has built-in BlueTooth. It appears to be attached to the [USB] internal bus, so make sure your kernel has CONFIG_BT_HCIUSB support. The kernel that came with Ubuntu 5.04 had this.